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London College for Ladies. In which a tolerably good room is called "The Library." "Where is the library?" said I, to the Lady Resident. "The room you have just left," was her reply. "Pray allow me to go back, for I must confess that I did not observe the books."—"Oh, we have not any books!" "None at all?" "They bring ...
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LADIES, Your correspondent S. E. M. calls attention to the immense advantages which would accrue from your sex possessing a knowledge of the healing art. "Everyone," she says, "can imagine ten thousand cases in which a lady doctor might 'stand in the gap' and save life." The enclosed letter so entirely confirms her vie...
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"To the Editor of the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. "SIR,—Having already expressed to you my reason for believing that a clergyman does not necessarily forfeit respect by combining in certain cases secular and spiritual duties, I now proceed to consider the dictum of the British Medical Association, that 'the attainmen...
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"The Medical Diaconate."
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yield the palm of knowledge upon every subject to those who have studied it the most deeply and philosophically; but this need not make it impossible for others to have acquired at least a very useful degree of knowledge on the same subjects. The really liberal-minded and well-educated man, who devotes his life to that...
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“Where, then, is the impossibility of good and great results from a regular instruction of the clergy, especially of the country clergy, in the healing art; or, at all events, of such of them as are conscious of any aptitude for such a study? I believe among our own poor at home, quite as much as among the
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heathen inhabitants of other lands, the gospel truths will not be less readily listened to from the lips of the minister of God whose head and hands have contributed to the alleviation and cure of bodily disease.
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The mortal remains of the late Duchess of Kent were privately interred in the family-vault in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, their Royal Highnesses the Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales being chief mourners. The will of her late Royal Highness was proved on the 3rd ult. by the Prince Consort, the sole executor. The...
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SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS, DUBLIN.—A meeting to make arrangements for the reception of the “National Association for the Promotion of Social Science” was held on Saturday the 13th in the Mansion House, Dublin. The chair was taken by the Lord Mayor, and a number of the most influential persons in the City were present, an...
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" I am, &c., W. H. KARслаKE.
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requiring a weekly payment from each patient, avoids compromising those feelings of self-respect which would prevent the acceptance of hospital relief. Such an institution is deserving of public support. **ELVERTON CASR.**—This action, which may be termed one of the causes célèbres, has given rise to a public demonstr...
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'distressed, has munificently intimated her intention to contribute the cost of a new life-boat (about £200) to be stationed at Plymouth. Miss Wasey, of Priors Court, has also contributed £200, in addition to £50 previously presented by her, to the Royal National Life Boat Institution. The will of the late Miss Mary P...
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Miss Susan Durant has received a commission to execute one of the poetical marbles for the Mansion House, being, as far as we recollect, the first English lady who has ever gained an honor of this particular kind. The commission was awarded to her in open competition with numerous other artists. The following is a lis...
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to Miss Kate Southey, on account of the important services rendered by her father, the late Robert Southey, to English literature. £80 to Miss Julia Tilt, in consideration of her literary merit. £50 on Mrs. Henfrey, on account of her husband's (the late Professor Henfrey) contributions to anatomical and physiological b...
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“Glancing down the columns of ‘Want Places,’ in the Morning Post of Thursday last, we see reason to believe that the sea have as little notion as the lords of the pantry of throwing themselves away, ‘unless they know the reason why.’ Mrs. J. O. P. wants to be a cook and housekeeper; in which ambidexter capacity (nice p...
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VOL. III.—AUGUST, 1859. XIII.—MARCH. XIV.—APRIL. XV.—MAY. XVI.—JUNE. XVII.—JULY. XVIII.—AUGUST.
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The following is an extract from the London Times, of the 19th inst., giving an account of the proceedings at the late meeting of the British Association at Dublin. The meeting of the British Association at Dublin, which was held on the 29th ultimo, was opened by the President, Sir Charles Wheatstone, who, in the cour...
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LONDON: THE TIMES. Tuesday, January 1, 1805. PARLIAMENTARY REGISTER. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Speaker took the Chair at half-past Two o'clock. PETITIONS PRESENTED. To the Speaker, by Mr. WILLIAMS, from the Inhabitants of the Parish of St. Mary, Whitechapel, praying for the erection of a Church in that Parish. To t...
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MARCH. no. I.—Training Schools for Female Servants.—No. I II.—Margaret of Norway.—Part 1 III.—Liverpool Institution for the Training and Employment of Nurses IV.—The Old Chateau.—A Poem V.—Still Life VI.—How to Utilize the Powers of Women VII.—Fashion versus Health VIII.—Ladies' Institute IX.—The Third Annual Exhibiti...
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XIII. - The Ladies' Sanitary Association XIV. - Margaret of Norway. - Part 2 XV. - Institution of Deaconesses at Kaiserswerth XVI. - The River Thames. - A Poem XVII. - Success and Failure. - Part 1 XVIII. - Life Assurance Agency as an Employment for Females XIX. - Mrs. Robinson's Housemaid XX. - A Few Words abou...
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XXIV.—The Training of Female Servants.—No. II XXV.—Bettina XXVI.—Warehouse Seamstresses XXVII.—Gibson’s Studio.—A Poem XXVIII.—Success and Failure.—Part 2 XXIX.—A Day at the Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum XXX.—Some of the Work in which Women are Deficient XXXI.—Charity as a Portion of the Public Vocation of Women XXXII....
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MAY. The London Gazette. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1857. [Column 1] THE LONDON GAZETTE. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1857. [Column 2] THE LONDON GAZETTE. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1857. [Column 3] THE LONDON GAZETTE. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1857. [Column 4] THE LONDON GAZETTE. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1857. [Column 5] THE LONDON GAZETTE. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 185...
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JUNE. no. XXXVI.—The Details of Woman’s Work in Sanitary Reform.—Part 1 217 XXXVII.—Sketch of the Life and Labors of Maria Bocoii La Moinette 228 XXXVIII.—New Things 245 XXXIX.—The Woodroof.—A Poem by Isa Craig 251 XL.—Success and Failure.—Part 3 252 XLI.—Female Engravers 259 XLII.—The Ladies’ Committee at the Royal W...
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THE A NEWSPAPER FOR THE COUNTY OF YORK. VOL. I. SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1847. (Price 4d.) THE YORKSHIRE PATRIOT. THE YORKSHIRE PATRIOT. SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1847. (Price 4d.) THE YORKSHIRE PATRIOT. SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1847. (Price 4d.) THE YORKSHIRE PATRIOT. SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1847. (Price 4...
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I.—THE OPINIONS OF JOHN STUART MILL. —
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THERE is no name in England which carries with it so much weight, whether it be at Oxford or Cambridge, or in the two Houses of Legislature, as that of John Stuart Mill, the philosopher, logician and political economist.
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Among all classes of thinking men all over the country there is no one whose opinion of the right or wrong of a political measure is so much respected. It is he who has suggested by his forethought and wisdom many of the most important measures of the last twenty years for the amelioration of the condition of the peopl...
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John Stuart Mill has not been a voluminous writer; his works are all contained in eight volumes. But the weight must not be judged by the bulk. His books can never be popular, yet no man's works have affected the people more deeply. His profound treatises and essays, addressed to the most educated minds of our time, af...
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- It is not a little important that women engaged in the present movement for extending the right to work to their sex should know exactly what are the opinions of such a man as Mr. Mill upon this question and all connected with it. We have said before, that Mr. Mill's works
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Vol. VI. September I.—THE OPINIONS OF There is no name in England whether it be at Oxford or Cambridge Legislature, as that of John Stuart and political economist. Among all classes of thinking men one whose opinion of the right or much respected. It is he who has wisdom many of the most imporyears for the ameliorat...
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are not popular, and we must therefore presume that few women, how ever desirable for their instruction it may be, will take the trouble to wade through eight volumes of political economy and philosophical writing. We therefore propose to abstract and to extract from his works everything which we think will be useful a...
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It is not to be read until the student is well acquainted with the elements of logic, some mathematics, and a few such books as Dr. Brown’s “Cause and Effect.” This book is the most complete treatise upon logic in the English language. To read it properly, and thoroughly to understand it, is quite an education to the l...
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Yet she wishes directly and distinctly to see what the logician himself has to say on this most important question to her and her sisters. When reading the beautiful examples of the four great methods of experimental inquiry, she is suddenly struck with the applicability of the 'method of residues' to the case of the p...
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The second volume of the “Logic” treats of induction, of operations subsidiary to induction, of fallacies, and of the logic of the moral sciences. All these subjects are illustrated with copious examples, which very much increase the interest of the book, but there is nowhere any passage which bears so directly on our ...
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whether men or women, can close these two volumes without holding a more reasonable view of this and all other questions. But we have no more space to spare for the “Logic,” having shown that the greatest logician has openly and strongly declared his opinion. Now let us see what we can find in the “Principles of Polit...
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Political Economy is to the nation what domestic economy is to the family; the subject of this science is “Wealth, its production and distribution, including directly or remotely the operation of all the causes by which the condition of mankind or of any society of human beings in respect of this universal object of hu...
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"For the same reason it is found that, cateris paribus, those trades are generally the worst paid in which the wife and children of the artisan aid in the work. The income which the habits of the class demand, and down to which they are almost sure to multiply, is made up, in those trades, by the earnings of the whole ...
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"It deserves consideration, why the wages of women are generally lower, and very much lower, than those of men. They are not universally so; where men and women work at the same employment, if it be one for which they are equally fitted in point of physical power, they are not always unequally paid. Women in factories,...
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to take systematically the lion’s share of whatever belongs to both. But the principal question relates to the peculiar employments of women. The remuneration of these is always, I believe, greatly below that of employments of equal skill and equal disagreeableness carried on by men. In some of these cases the explanat...
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"In the occupations in which employers take full advantage of competition, the low wages of women, as compared with the ordinary earnings of men, are a proof that the employments are overstocked: that although so much smaller a number of women than of men support themselves by wages, the occupations which law and usage...
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That this sentence is scientifically true cannot be denied; and in any wide scheme for benefiting any class it must never be lost sight of. It would be hopeless to imagine that individual efforts could ever raise the market price of needlewomen's work. At the same time, it is the bounden duty of every mistress of a fam...
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Looking to the second volume of the Political Economy, we find the following passage on the progress of society, on production and distribution; showing that society is gradually becoming more and
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more fit for women to work in, owing to the increased security to person and property guaranteed by our modern civilization. " Whatever may be the other changes which the economy of society is destined to undergo, there is one actually in progress concerning which there can be no dispute. In the leading countries of th...
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Of the features which characterize this progressive economical movement of civilized nations, that which first excites attention, through its intimate connexion with the phenomena of production, is the perpetual and, so far as human foresight can extend, the unlimited growth of man's power over nature. Our knowledge of...
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most backward as well as the most advanced, are, in each generation, better protected against the violence and rapacity of one another, both by a more efficient judicature and police for the suppression of private crime, and by the decay and destruction of those mischievous privileges which enabled certain classes of t...
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"The peculiar characteristic, in short, of civilized beings, is the capacity of co-operation; and this, like other faculties, tends to improve by practice, and becomes capable of assuming a constantly wider sphere of action. Accordingly, there is no more certain incident of the progressive change taking place in societ...
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objects. The progress which is to be expected in the physicasciences and arts, combined with the greater security of property and greater freedom in disposing of it, which are obvious features in the civilization of modern nations, with the more extensive and more skilful employment of the joint-stock principle, afford...
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The last passage which we will give to our readers appears to us to be open to some exception. The immense employment of un-married women in factories, who do possess “as absolute control as men have, over their own persons and their own patrimony or acquisitions,” calls for a certain limitation and regulation of their...
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"Among those members of the community whose freedom of contract ought to be controlled by the Legislature for their own protection (it is said) of their dependent position, it is frequently proposed to include women: and in the recent Factory Act, their labor, in common with that of young persons, has been placed under...
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The lives of certain persons seem to have grown out so naturally from the social sphere in which they were passed, and to have belonged to it so completely, that we cannot even imagine their having occurred elsewhere. Such lives may almost be considered, in their own way, as “representative;” so truly do they reflect t...
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(To be continued.) ———————————— II.—MADAME DE GIRARDIN.
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as Madame de Girardin, was born on the twenty-sixth of January, 1804, in the picturesque old town of Aix-la-Chapelle, the favorite residence and burial-place of Charlemagne, on whose tomb she is said to have been baptized, the Marquise de Custine standing as her godmother. Her parents were at that time in easy circumst...
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Monsieur and Madame Gay now removed with their children to Paris, where the latter exerted all her ingenuity, but in vain, to mollify the ministerial displeasure excited by the unruliness of her tongue, and to obtain another appointment for her husband. Soon after his return to Paris, Monsieur Gay died; and his widow, ...
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left without pecuniary resources, employed her pen, actively and successfully, in the support of her family. An intimate friend of the Princess de Chimay, and detesting Napoleon—both on account of the disgrace which she herself had been the means of bringing upon her late husband, and of the persistent refusal of the ...
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By the time the clever child had fairly entered her teens, she was, indeed, as remarkable for her personal grace and loveliness as for her real, though somewhat precocious talent. The threadbare simile of “lilies and roses” might have been invented for her, so pure was her complexion, and so fresh the delicate coloring...
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her snowy shoulders;—such were the items of an ensemble that threw poets and painters into raptures, and attracted the admiration of all who saw her. The fame of her talent and beauty, spread abroad by admiring friends, was not long in introducing their possessors to a wider sphere; and the young poetess, received wit...
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At the age of eighteen, Delphine presented to the Academy a poem in praise of the self-devotion displayed at Barcelona by the French physicians and the sisters of the order of St. Camilla during the plague which ravaged that city. The Academy had offered a prize for the best composition on this subject; but Delphine, i...
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of distinguished personages executed by him in bas-relief thereupon. We give the reader the benefit of these verses, though we can discover no particular inspiration therein:— STANCES SUR LA MORT DU GÉNÉRAL FOY. Pleurez, Français, pleurez ! la patrie est en deuil; Pleurez le défenseur que la mort vous enlève; Et vous...
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However this may be, it does not appear that the Director of Belles-lettres was moved to the granting of the Duchess's prayer. But other and less judicious admirers had sounded the praises of Delphine's charms and talents within the precincts of the Court, and in the ears of the monarch; and had officially suggested th...
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version of the Court-gossip of the time, a still more irregular laisson with the King himself. The latter at length consented to allow the fair songstress to be presented to him; but, so far from giving his sanction to the intrigues of his courtiers—intrigues which were apparently quite unsuspected by their object—term...
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We select two which appear to us among the most beautiful of the shorter pieces, and which will give the reader a fair idea of her powers.
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ÉLÉGIE. "Jeune fille, où vas-tu si tard ? D'où vienent qu'à travers la vallée Tu portes tes pas au hasard ? Pourquoi les égarer dans cette sombre allée ? Les bergers des long-temps ont rentré les troupeaux ; L'horloge va sonner l'heure de la prière, Et déjà, pour goûter les douceurs du repos, Le laboureur a rejoint sa...
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"Pour la parer en ce jour solennel, Moi-même sur son front j'attachai sa guirlande; Des époux j'ai suivi les pas jusqu'à l'autel; J'ai mêlé mon tribut à leur pieuse offrande: C'est alors qu'il m'a vue...O trop flatteuse erreur! Un seul instant j'ai cru revivre dans son coeur: Il a pali...Mais un regard d'Elvire Sur sa ...
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LA NOCE D'ELVIRE.
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Elle dit ; et l'écho fidèle Répéta ses tristes accents. Un mois après, vers la chapelle Dirigeant ses pas languissants, Le vieillard aperçut une tombe nouvelle " Grand Dieu ! s'écria-t-il, ta bonté paternelle A pris pitié d'un sort si rigoureux !"
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Elle n'est plus...Pourtant, à la même heure, L'écho de la sainte demoiselle, Rélète encore des accents douloureux : Mais la voix a changé...C'est Elvire qui pleure.
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De ma sainte patrie J'accours vous rassurer. Sur ma tombe fleurie, Mes seurs, pourquoi pleurer? Dans son affreux mystere, La mort a des douceurs; Je vous vois sur la terre: Ne pleurez point, mes seurs.
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Dans les cieux je suis ange, Et je veille sur vous ; Ma joie est sans mélange, Car je fus humble et doux. Des saintes immortelles Je suis le protége ; Dieu m'a donné des ailes, Mais ne m'a point changé.
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Ma souffrance est passée, Et mes pleurs sont taris ; Ma main n'est plus glacée, Je joue et je souris ; Mon regard est le même, Et j'ai la même voix ; Mon cœur d'ange vous aime, Mes sœurs, comme autrefois.
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J'ai la même figure Qui charmait tant vos yeux ; La même chevelure Orne mon front joyeux ; Mais ces boucles coupées, Au jour de mon trépas De vos larmes trempées, Ne repousseront pas !
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Le ciel est ma demeure, J'habite un palais d'or; Nous poissons à toute heure Dans l'éternel trésors; Un fil impérissable A tissu nos habits; Nous jouons sur un sable D'opale et de rubis.
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LE PETIT FRÈRE.
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Là-haut dans des corbeilles Les fleurs croissent sans art; Les méchantes abeilles Là-haut n'ont point de dard; Les roses qu'on effeuille Peuvent encore fleurir; Et les fruits que l'on cueille Ne font jamais mourir.
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Les anges de mon âge Connaissent le sommeil; Je dors sur un nuage, Dans un berceau vermeil; J'ai pour rideau le voile De la vierge d'amour; Ma lampe est une étoile Qui brille jusqu'au jour.
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Le soir, quand la nuit tombe, Parmi vous je descends; Vous pleurez sur ma tombe; Vos larmes, je les sens. Cache parmi les pierres De ce funèbre lieu, J'écoute vos prières, Et je les porte à Dieu.
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Oh! cessez votre plainte, Ma mère, croyez-moi; Vous serez une sainte, Si vous gardez la foi. C'est un mal salutaire Que perdre un nouveau-né; Aux larmes d'une mère Tout sera pardonné!
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The return of Delphine Gay to her native land was followed by a series of ovations even more flattering to her pride of country than the honors which had been paid to her in Rome.
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Baron Gros had just completed the frescoes of the Pantheon; and on the opening of that building to the public on their termination, the “Musée de la Patrie,” led by the painter to a place of honor prepared for her beneath the dome, read some verses which she had written for the occasion, in the midst of an assembly com...
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On another occasion, when the young poetess took her seat in one of the front boxes of the Opera, wearing a sky-blue scarf thrown lightly over her white shoulders, and her hair falling round her like a golden mist, such was the electrifying effect of her presence that the entire audience rose spontaneously, and saluted...
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and flatteries, offered equally to her beauty and her talent, and admirably calculated to turn the head of any young woman. That her head remained unturned by all this adulation may fairly be considered as a conclusive proof of the natural simplicity and goodness of her character. But all this time, the matrimonial pr...
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